Pen/Ink/Paper Trios

2024-10-03T22:02:56Z

6 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

I have spent years trying to find the same paper.

I don't follow my own advice of buying a ream or 100 sheet box of good to better paper with every three inks I buy.

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But the most important thing is to stock up on any good to better paper when it is actually found, if it is not main stream, CT or Rhoda or name Japaneses paper.

It more than likely will fall to some manager's bonus, in sizing is the first thing a ball point using bookkeeper eliminates.

2024-10-04T01:04:31Z

On 10/1/2024 at 7:17 PM, Misfit said:

Here is the trio I mentioned in a Leuchtturm pocket notebook in Port Red.

You know what I think 😀👍 Mini Review 👍

23 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

@Misfit -- Oh Terre de Feu looks like a nice color.... (Like I REALLY need more ink..... ).

And this is why I always warn new folks about the enablers....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Enablers..... ugh.... +1 👍

2 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I don't follow my own advice of buying a ream or 100 sheet box of good to better paper with every three inks I buy.

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But the most important thing is to stock up on any good to better paper when it is actually found, if it is not main stream, CT or Rhoda or name Japaneses paper.

It more than likely will fall to some manager's bonus, in sizing is the first thing a ball point using bookkeeper eliminates.

@Penguincollector and @Bo Bo Olson

Stocking up recently backfired on me. I was trying to stock up on Cosmo Snow because it's been discontinued and bought a number of packs of A5s and A4s, but the paper turned out not to be the same quality as all the other Cosmo Snow I've purchased from the same source. This new stuff, both A5 & A4 feathered with some inks. Regular Cosmo Snow never feathers with anything.

2024-10-04T01:13:26Z

So now that I have all this sub optimal Cosmo Snow paper I thought I'd get another pen to go with it. Maybe a Pilot or a Sailor. So I was looking at the nibs and it looks like the Sailor 1911L has a #5 nib and the Pilot 743 has a #6 nib... What do you guys think?

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2024-10-04T01:16:44Z

Then I was checking out Bank paper. The big surprise was Sailor Manyo Fuji, normally a gray ink, wrote green. I never saw that before. (Bottom right)

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2024-10-04T01:28:04Z

Then I was wondering how much of a difference paper actually makes so I wrote with a very wet Pelikan M1000 with Pelikan 4001 Brillant Braun on various papers. Although each paper had it's own feel, It didn't make as big a difference as I though it would when the ink dried. The biggest thing I noticed was that on Cosmo Snow and Iroful the line became slightly wider, with Cosmo Snow slightly wider than Iroful. I don't know if I'd call that spreading, but it was wider. Clairefontaine Stationary had the finest line.

2024-10-04T02:15:28Z

I'm not done.... 🤪

While I was trying to figure out which pen to get, I impulse ordered a JunLai 630 with a gold nib from Aliexpress. Well the thing arrived today and I wasn't happy. There were greasy fingerprints all over the nib and the stamping/engraving wasn't that great... I tried to write with it and it felt really weird. I have 4 630s with steel nibs so I basically knew what to expect but this one felt different. I dipped it into a couple of inks and there was some kind of feedback I wasn't expecting. Not a scratch, but feedback. I took out one of the steel 630s to compare and it was significantly smoother. Bounce was about the same for both the steel and the 14Kt gold. Something wasn't right but the writing samples didn't offer any clues.

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I took a look at the tines to see if everything was lined up and that's where I got a clue as to what was going on.

When I ordered the pen, I was careful to check the box for a standard medium nib (there were a few choices including a Heartbeat and I didn't want one of those) but when I took a good look with my cellphone camera this is what I found.

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I checked back on the website and noticed the title read:

So apparently, checking the box for a Standard Medium Nib meant nothing and what I was sent was a 14Kt Long Knife Nib. Now I have a couple of pens with Kaigelu Long Knife nibs and I like them, but I really didn't want a 14Kt specialty nib on this pen. I was expecting a nice smooth medium nib that would write like the other 630 nibs. So what to do? Back to China? I don't think so.

2024-10-04T02:41:20Z

@USG very nice mega mini reviews you’ve been posting here. I don’t comment much, but do appreciate the way you show us ink properties. Much appreciated.